Hi everyone,
Finished distro hopping and settled on OpenSUSE.
I know this question seems as simple as that but there is a problem I’m having and I’m afraid to continue the installation without clarification. I have a 1TB drive, and 2 500GB drives. I have win 7 on the TB, and i would like to put Opensuse on one of the 500GB drives. I deliberately removed my TB partition (it was split in 2 before), i wanted opensuse to be on a drive all by itself (hence the 500GB drives). My problem lies with the options for installing the partitions.
The recommended setup opensuse gives me is to shrink my win 7…that i do not want, so i clicked create partition and selected one of the 500GB and i chose the option to use the entire disk (which is what i want). HOWEVER, when i proceed there’s a delete windows 7 partition shows up in red print at the top left while some other things are detailed, can’t remember what they are.
Why does it keep saying that if i selected the 500 GB drive, i want it to completely ignore my TB drive. I’m afraid to continue for obvious reasons so i cancelled lol. I guess i can probably disconnect my TB and install, but i’m not sure what the consequences will be when i’m dual booting if any. The whole partition thing confuses me. Advice please. thanks in advance.
Sometimes, it is necessary to tell openSUSE to ‘rescan’ the hard drive in the partition menu area, so as to remove any proposed suggestions for deletions. But its difficult to give specific suggestions without more detailed information.
gogalthorp:
You’ve got to give me specific instructions, cause I’m really at a lost to what you just said haha, forgive my ignorance. I’m clueless where linux partitions are concerned. I have 4 gb RAM btw
Geez i mixed up the entire order of screens.
THe first pic is the final screen i see b4 i proceed, and this one is the first screen i get when i’m about to install
This does not look too bad, if I understand what you wish to do. From what I can see you stopped the initial installer attempt to carve up your /dev/sda1 (your c: drive) and instead you successfully repointed it to the /dev/sdb (one of your 500GB drives). It looks to me there you have have setup:
/dev/sdb1 as a 2GB swap
/dev/sdb2 as a 20 GB / (root)
/dev/sdb3 as a 443 GB /home
Windows C (you windows 7) will be untouched, and accessable under /windows/C
your other 500GB will be untouched and accessable under /windows/D
Yes, i figured out what all the partitions meant and so on. I got confused cuz they said delete windows partition, i only realized afterward they meant change it from it’s NTFS state to EXT4 to install the opensuse (silly me)
Gogalthorp’s post helped me more than i originally thought.
I have an issue post isntallation though.
I have a splash screen that has
Opensuse
OPensuse (failsafe)
windows 1
windows 2
windows 3
Windows 2 is the only option that loads windows 7 successfully. wth. Weird, how do i clean that up? i’d like a screen that just asks me to choose opensuse or windows.
Also, why is the network manager applet not enabled by deault, it took me a good half an hour figuring out how to get it show there. In the live CD it’s there.
How do i atuomatically connect to my VPN at start, i already have the connect automatically box checked, but nada
Firstly the other Windows options at the GRUB menu are because Windows
has more than one partition (I know Windows Vista had 2 partitions maybe
the other is some kind of recovery tool).
You can probably remove them from the menu by deleting the lines
relating to them from the menu.lst file (MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE YOU TRY
THIS!)
Network manager has always shown from first boot of openSUSE for me,
since I first used it at 11.0 and on different computers, so I can’t say
why it didn’t work for you by default. Still you got it working now,
that’s the main thing.
Connect automatically should accomplish what you want it to, also (if
you use GNOME) you can select the ‘available to all users’ box to
connect to the network without being logged in.
To expand:
the file to edit as root is /boot/grub/menu.lst
Open a console window
become root at the command line su -
enter root password (note this does not echo to the screen!)
make a copy cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.bak
then edit the file joe /boot/grub/menu.lst
remove the boot items that don’t work. save the file
note I suggested to use a very simple text editor that should be available called joe. If you are adventurous you can use vi
Thank you for the help guys, sorry i can’t try your suggestion right now, but i’ve encountered a DISASTROUS problem.
So i was following the instructions to get my graphics card working (HD 4870) a lil bit into install and i lost internet, everything refused to close, so i forced a restart, now all i see is my wallpaper and my mouse pointer on start. That’s it. Several times this happened. So i figured i’ll use the DVD repair option (big mistake) as it ‘repaired’ my bootloader, and now i only have SUSE linux and SUSE failsafe in my startup. Windows is gone…and SUSE doesn’t want to load :’(
I’m not sure where to go from here now. I messed up badly it seems.
Also i far prefer the Gnome Yast to QT yast…WT is so confusing i thought it should’ve been easier lol
not panicking, i know it’s there
I’m not sure i understand what you’re asking me to do…I assume that you want me to enter that in terminal? I’m having a hard time getting into any OS right now hahaha
Would a reinstall on the current partition just put everything back to how it is supposed to be?
hmm is there an edit button so i don’t double post?
Anyway, problem solved, i just reinstalled opensuse on th same partition and started from fresh. So now round 2 lol. Again, network connection applet isn’t on by default i had to go into Yast -> network settings, and put it on manual in order to get it. Strange.
ONe thing i’ve noticed, in this distro and apparently EVERY distro i tried, anytime i have my vpn up and i’m isntalling in the software package, i always seem to lsoe connection or have very strong delays. I’m beginning to wonder if it is an issue with my service, i would hate to believe this is some weird liunux bug.
Anyone wish to guide me on how to install ideal drivers for my hd 4870? In otehr distros, when i enable compiz i ahve lag minimiseing and maximising (poor or absent 2d acceleration apparently). Default open source graphics drivers in distros like say mint, ubuntu, i can rn compiz fine…however with opensuse…nothing. Compiz slaps me and tells me i have no supported hardware.
One does not get special desktop effects in 11.2 with open source drivers on many different hardware. Thats an openSUSE-11.2 ‘as packaged’ limitation.
Note the openSUSE release cycle is longer than that of many other distributions (which go with 6 months) and hence many new distributions have newer open source graphic drivers than openSUSE. To a certain extent special desktop effects with the open source radeon/radonhd driver works better in openSUSE-11.3 than in 11.2.
However I also note that some of the recent distributions (Fedora-13 for example) have patches applied to their kernel/xorg/mesa such that they have superior special desktop effects with Fedora 13 with open source drivers, than one even see’s in openSUSE-11.3 (based on an RC1 test). I believe this is because they (Fedora) have applied patches to the kernel/xorg/mesa that have not yet made their way upstream, and hence have also not made their way downstream to openSUSE.
i thought it should’ve been easier lol
